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The Price of Privilege
First, welcome to all my new followers, thanks so much for paying me the compliment of signing up to see every blog post. I tend to write about higher education, teaching and education reform, psychology and history of science. Sometimes about several at once. But of course around this season my thoughts turn to politics……
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On Controversial College Speakers, Debating and Critical Thinking
Azusa Pacific University recently disinvited Charles Murray from giving a talk there. The talk had been scheduled for months, but apparently no one realized the full extent of his bad reputation. He wrote an open letter in response. Although regular readers will know that my politics are quite opposite from Murray’s, I agree with Murray here. Here’s where…
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Social Media as a Catalyst for Psychological Science
Can social media serve as a catalyst for psychological science? I think many scientists are rightly skeptical of social media as a replacement for other normal scientific processes. Peer review will not be replaced by Tweep Review. Methods sections will not be replaced by “Storifies.” However, it is equally clear that social media engagement can boost the…
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Oh I get tenure, with a little help from my friends
To continue from my last post, one of the elements that disturbed me about defining scientist as “gets grants, has groundbreaking ideas” is not just that this narrow definition of scientist excludes worthy people, but also that it excludes certain activities of people (like myself) who already consider themselves scientists. While I don’t have the…
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Don’t Just Click There, DO Something
There is a predictable uproar about the latest installment, in Forbes this time, of our national conversation entitled: Golly Aren’t Academics Living Lazy Leisurely Lives (GAALLLL, for short). I don’t have much to say but I want to remind people that this is a fairly old debate. I really don’t think it changes much each…
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The Absurdity of Ranking Colleges by Graduate Salaries
Jordan Weissman has moved from the Atlantic, and is now covering economics at Slate. He has a post up provocatively titled (it is Slate, after all) “What College Will Leave you Poorest?” which covers the Payscale college salary rankings, in which Payscale.com ranks colleges based on the cost of the college offset by the reported salaries of…
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